Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director asks modders to avoid making anything 'offensive or inappropriate,'

is coming to PC in January, and you know what that means: nude mods. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi would really prefer if you didn't do that, though, saying in an interview with that he hopes everyone will keep it clean.

There's a whole host of mods available for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake—we've got a , if you're in the market—and it's fair to assume that we'll see the same with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Square Enix currently has no plans to offer official mod support, Hamaguchi said, but is happy (or at least willing) to let it happen. Just, y'know, mind your manners.

"We respect the creativity of the modding community and welcome their creations," Hamaguchi said. "Though we ask modders not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate."

This is of course a statement that, to put it mildly, is open to interpretation. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a game that seems to lean pretty heavily into the whole "swimsuit edition" thing, after all, and while that's still a good distance from full frontal nudity, going the full monty is hardly unusual in videogames these days, even without the magic of mods. I get an eyeful of Mini-V every time I change outfits in Cyberpunk 2077, and you will recall that one of the most pressing pre-release questions about was whether or not we'd .

The Final Fantasy 7 community, to its credit, is responding exactly as you'd expect:

One said Hamaguchi's request "is like asking the sky not to be blue." Another wrote, "If someone doesn’t put a massive hog on Cait so when it jumps it slaps the ground w69 then the mod community is over."

"First mods are always about TAA, but once the collective post nut clarity begins to settle in, you start to see some actual useful and quality-of-life-improvement type of mods," a third redditor predicted. "But TAA first." Presumably they're not referring to temporal anti-aliasing.

This isn't the first time a developer has taken issue with "inappropriate" mods on PC. In 2015, Team Ninja warned mod makers to be "" with Dead or Alive 5 mods (a caution that held up for about ), and Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata said in 2017 that such things are up to the "" of players, although he pretty clearly had some trepidation about where that sense would lead. Just a few months ago, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida said "we definitely don't want to see anything " in mods for that game.

On the other hand, thanks to a revealing Resident Evil w69 slot ทางเข้า​ 2 thong mod and Capcom didn't seem too bothered by it. Clearly there's no set industry standards in place on this one.

It all seems very silly to me, especially given , but the bottom line is this: PC gaming is where it's at, and nude mods are where PC gaming is at. You can't have one without the other, so you might as well learn to respect it.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth comes to PC on January 23, 2025. I'm looking forward to what happens on January 24.